Henry Spencer wrote:

You'll say: "But yes! But a nuclear war could wipe out all of our nation."
Oddly enough, anyone it wipes out _after_ me isn't of much concern to me
in any concrete form. :-D


By that I meant that I didn't want to get killed in one, nor do I
imagine much of the population does.
After I get vaporised, whatever the fate of the rest of Earth's history
is like is pretty moot as far as I'm concerned.
I could almost picture North Korea being whacko enough do do something
like this, but not Iran.
And even in North Korea's case, their nuclear test seems to have
generated the exact political response they wanted, so it wasn't as
crazy as it was clever.
And North Korean missiles aren't going to be flying anywhere near Poland
on there way to the U.S., so we can leave them out of this equation,
which leaves us with Crazy Islam standing in the line-up of the usual
suspects.
The Iranian government will give a lot of lip service to a glorious
Islamic death in Jihad, but I'm pretty sure if you were to hold a candle
up to one of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's ears and peered into the other one,
you would not see Allah in there.
At least among the upper levels of Iranian society and government, Islam
is something probably treated a lot like Christianity is here in the
U.S. among our politicians. Sure, theoretically everyone believes in it
if asked, but if you found someone who really did believe in it in
public office, you'd strongly suspect that they were either stupid or
had mental problems.
It's a salve for the poor, who don't have money but do have their
holiness deposited in the bank of heaven.
In fact, as I pointed out, we seem to have our own pack of nuts
franticly wishing for the end of the world after some huge holy war in
which they can fight and then be taken up in The Rapture, and yet we
haven't decided to nuke Magog to speed things up.
You want a country with nuclear weapons that would be every bit as
dangerous as Iran if the wrong people got their hands on them?
May I nominate Israel?
A country that has more splinter groups of oddball religious zealots
running around in it than even the U.S., and which is franticly waiting
around for the Messiah to show up, leaving them open to the
Holyman-of-the-week club, as was quite accurately show in Monty Python's
"Life Of Brian".
Everybody remembers Jesus, but they forget we was only one in a long
line of would-be Messiah Rabbis from that period of time, including the
one from a few years before who when asked it people should pay taxes to
the Romans, said "No" and was crucified pronto for that statement.
Between our own right-wing nutjob reverends looking to get the battle of
Armageddon going in Israel by the middle of next year at the latest, and
a bunch of desperate Rabbis peeking under every rock to find the
Messiah, you could picture something going very wrong indeed in regards
to the Israeli nuclear arsenal, every bit as much as you could with the
Mahdi showing up in Tehran next Tuesday.

Pat